Sentences with phrase «biblical prohibition against»

Mormon polygamy was outlawed in this country, despite the constitutional protection of freedom of religion, because it violated the sensibilities of the dominant Christian culture, even though no explicit biblical prohibition against polygamy exists.

(Goux, in Les Iconoclastes, needs of course to find a psychoanalytical basis for the biblical prohibition against representing God and adoring images.

Two comments.One, the atheist / materialist claims that he / she... «Did «nt believe in free will»... O.K.Should we take that to mean some mindless, heretofore unknown force apllied those words in your behalf?Did someone put the proverbial «gun to your head «and force you to post your comments?we await you presumably forced answer with bated breath.Two.As for Mr.Gingrich, beware.Politics aside, the one question yet remains for Calista: How did you, a professed «devout «Roman Catholic, carry on a 6 - year affair with a man you knew was married?How does that square with the Biblical prohibition against committing adultery?Oh wait!I know!As a «devout «Roman Catholic you can sin with impunity; just go to your priest, say a couple of «hail Marys and Our Fathers», ask the priest to bless your sinning, and resume.Of course!I had forgetton how easily Catholics excuse their trangressions (ex opere operato, anyone).

I posted this a week ago to my personal blog and intended to cross-post it here without too much delay, but I've just realized that I never got around to it.There's a particularly bad argument against those who accept the biblical prohibitions against same - sex sexual acts, and I think I've....

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If these ministers hope to reaffirm the biblical view and to avoid implicating the Church in a false definition of marriage, then they should make the focus of their pledge something more relevant to the vast majority of the people seeking marriage: the prohibitions against sex before marriage and the prohibition against two Christians divorcing.

The prohibition against marriage between close relations has reasons beyond any «moral» code, and certainly does not come from biblical standards in which such relationships seem to be common, if not celebrated.

Earlier today before I departed for work, I pointed out the Biblical truths regarding the prohibitions against gay marriage in the BIble.

There is a biblical model and I believe it is still valid but on the other hand, there is no prohibition against meeting in buildings built for that purpose.